“How could it be an albatross? It’s a moving piece of music and it’s international. But in the same interview, he vigorously refuted an enquiry to whether the song was an albatross. In a 2002 Guardian piece, he appeared to half-concede the shift (“Perhaps, yeah. That was the flukey thing.”įor all its success, there’s a case that Everything I Do changed the perception of Adams, from a blue-collar everyman rock‘n’roll songwriter to a sweet-tooth balladeer who wrote songs for first dances. “I’ve never courted it much,” he told Classic Rock in 2008. Adams himself claims not to have done a single interview to promote it. A performance tacked onto the film’s closing credits ensured further saturation, propelling the song to a record-breaking 16-week UK#1 run, seven weeks atop the US Billboard chart, international ubiquity and 15 million sales.
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